The Boysun Deer
Upon acquaintance with folk culture of Boysun, the embroidery art looks magnificent. From the ancient time, the dowry of a bride included various embroidery pieces, which decorated a room of a newly - married couple. They were big decorative carpets - suzaneh; covers for blankets put on chests - borpush, taqiapush or choishab; frieze stripes running along the wall at the ceiling - dorpech, kirpech and zardevor; sandal - covers - sandalipush; covers for blunkets - bugdjoma, which were embroidered partly - only visible triangle.
The embroidery decorated many subjects - from sacral pray carpets - djoinamaz, various towels and male belt shawls up to small housewares - tea pouches (choi - halta) and others. All subjects had own ornamental motif. In Boysun ornamental embroidery, like in the other regions of Uzbekistan, dominate floral and geometric patterns with rare pieces of stylized pictures of birds and animals. Innovations hardly penetrated into Boysun and for many centuries have been filtered through folk...